Forensic Expert Witness Services

Donald A. Coggan, PE, is an independent consultant with over 30 years of technology management experience. He has successfully merged his engineering background and his familiarity with computers and information systems to provide forensic expert witness services that include Internet businesses and e-commerce.

• Preparing background arguments for a general contractor in the settlement of a lawsuit by the owner of a state facility with laboratory fume hoods.

• Preparing a methodology for a judge/jury to establish damages in a case of two Internet directory companies suing one another.

• Testifying on behalf of a supplier/contractor who claimed that the way a specification was worded caused him to lose the job by too-strongly favoring one of his competitors.

• Preparing technical arguments for a real estate developer who claimed that an energy-services supplier was in breach of contract.

• Preparing technical arguments for a Canadian government Department, which claimed that a computer services supplier was price-gouging.

As a forensic expert witness, Donald A. Coggan's guiding principles are to assess the facts objectively and to communicate them using easy-to-understand layman's terms. Years of experience in value engineering have proven helpful in breaking down large complex issues into smaller digestible bites. For general background information on the use of expert witnesses in American courts, check out...

FORENSIC EXPERT WITNESS FOR HIRE - NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the role of experts in American courtrooms. Critics of the "expert for hire" technique used by many attorneys say that science is often compromised in the courtroom setting for the sake of making a case. (7m58s in Real Audio)

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